Apache and ASP

Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 4:36 pm

Greetings All,
I figured I would ask here before I ventured out into never never land....

One of the local Sportfishing clubs has a website and their hosting was up. I offered to host it for them free on one of my servers. Their site was built in ASP. One of my servers has ASP support built in....cool no problem. We upload the file....move the domain....up comes the site....minus a couple of includes. I know there is something special that has to be done to get the include....included but I can not seem to find anywhere that spells it out A + B = C. I have never messed with ASP in any way shape or form.....Any one know anything about this...?

Thanks for the help!

Dawg

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Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 8:50 pm

Just note that ASP is not native to Apache. It is designed to be run on Microsoft's IIS server. I've heard there's an addon to get it in Apache, not sure how it works exactly.

The language is much the same as Visual Basic. If you've used it in other forms (VBA as in MSAccess databases), its fairly easy to figure out as a scripting language.

(Actually the proper way to assign a variable would be C = A + B Smile

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Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 9:25 pm

Hit, evaders99, Thank You for your responces.

I know NOTHING about ASP (Not that I know a heck of a lot about PHP) I am just trying to do a good deed.

One of the Servers I have has built in Apache-ASP support in it. How much? Heck if I know!

The issue is that it is not running the includes.....in the view source of the pages you can still see where the "Includes" are being called....

Code:

<!--# include file="site.asp"-->

I just got done with some on the reading and have a couple things to try. I have found that typing them out here.....seems to help me figure it out....

Drum Roll Please.....

Code:

<!--# include file="site.inc"-->

NOPe...Didn't work....NEXT!

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 9:59 am

I have read all too much about ASP for my entire lifetime. I would really like to help these folks out.....but I am about to show them the door cause I soimiply can not get it to work.

If any of you folks have any experance at this and would like to take a shot....let me know!

Dawg

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 1:05 pm

Those are SSI (server side include) statments. Apache should support them.
Not sure which ASP program you are using.. probably the free one.
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Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 1:50 pm

Evaders,
That is what is confusing me....It should work. I have looked in the conf files and I have +includes....I have Mod-Perl set....Every check list I go through....everything checks out. Heck If I know why it will not work.

I even thought about hardcosding the includes in to the files to make it work....but that is too much pain in the butt.

I am fairly weak in server setup....but I am trying....

Dawg